{"id":10814,"date":"2011-08-05T08:12:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T12:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10814"},"modified":"2011-08-05T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T12:12:50","slug":"adelaide-primary-80-percent-haitian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/adelaide-primary-80-percent-haitian","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Primary 80 Percent Haitian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education Minister Desmond Bannister has revealed that the student population of Adelaide Primary, a government school, is 80 percent Haitian.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bannister was addressing the Rotary Club of West Nassau at Graycliff Restaurant on the issue of immigrants in the public school system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe school has a student population of 136, with 10 teachers and two administrators. The principal\u2019s records show that approximately 80 percent of the students are from Haitian-Creole homes with parents\/guardians who do not speak English,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bannister emphasized that policy in The Bahamas dictates that all children in the country, except those on visitors permits, are entitled to access to education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Minister Desmond Bannister has revealed that the student population of Adelaide Primary, a government school, is 80 percent Haitian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[21,188],"class_list":["post-10814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-educational","tag-haitians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}